Parent Resources

• FBI Overview Video — FBI Special Agent Brian Herrick defines sextortion and talks about how young people are being manipulated and coerced into creating and sharing sexually explicit content online.  https://youtu.be/KkCrtqr2h-g

• Sextortion: What Parents Should Know (NetSmartz): https://drive.google.com/file/d/18uGR7jnI6cdW5jLQpNWWQU5KP3VLCQmV/view

• Sextortion Brochure (FBI) — Pamphlet discussing sextortion, a criminal act and a form of sexual exploitation that involves coercing a minor, through threat or manipulation, into producing sexually explicit material and sending it over the Internet.  https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/sextortion-brochure.pdf/view

• https://www.michiganicac.com/resources
  • This is a power point presentation for parents from the Michigan State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
• https://protectyoungeyes.com/
  • The Protect Young Eyes website has free weekly 30-minute webinars for parents.  They also have a free Protect App for all Apple and Android based phones
• https://www.cyberwise.org/
  • Cyber Wise has a book for parents called Raising Humans in a Digital world along with several other sources of information